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Enrolment for 2009 Professional Development Workshops will be available from 9:00am Monday 2nd February 2009. While some links may be active before that time, ALL selections for 2009 will be available from Monday 2nd February 2009. When visiting our website, www.osds.uwa.edu.au, if a "Not (...)

Knowledge is power! All you need to know upfront is designed to introduce participants to the University’s financial practice. This workshop includes the financial reporting structure, the University’s internal and external obligations, the University’s Chart of Accounts, the cut-off dates, the (...)

Forms! Forms! How to get my forms processed quickly is designed to provide participants with a sound knowledge of all the financial forms and tips to avoid delays and sent-backs. It also provides participants an overview of the entire process workflow and the impact on incorrect forms.

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PeopleSoft: Journals and eTForms is designed to provide participants the knowledge and tool to transfer funds or cost from a project grant to another and from a Business unit to another. This workshop is delivered in simple and non-Accountant language which helps you overcome the fear of dealing (...)

PeopleSoft: DIY Enquiries is designed to provide participants the efficient and simple ways to address day-to-day financial enquiries from colleagues or external parties – suppliers and customers.

After completing this workshop, participants should be able to: * Explore different ways to (...)

This workshop is designed to reinforce the University’s internal and external reporting obligations. Participants will be equipped with a checklist and knowledge on how to align month end practise to facilitate the preparation of the reports presented to the University’s Executives and Committees.

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Cash Handling is designed to provide staff with cash handling responsibilities the knowledge on the University’s policies and recommended best practise in these processes. Participants will be provided tips on how to address common auditor’s issues.

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PeopleSoft: Running Reports is designed to provide participants the knowledge and tool to run PeopleSoft reports correctly. List of useful reports and tips on how to get accurate information from reports is also included in this workshop.

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This workshop is designed to provide participants the knowledge and tool to create Purchase Orders and record receipt of goods/services on PeopleSoft. This enables efficiencies in the Purchasing process of the business unit.

After completing this workshop, participants should be able to: (...)

Plans for the National TechNet Conference are well underway. The conference is happening here at UWA in late November 2009 and will be a showcase of collaboration of all five Western Australian Universities. To help you prepare for the National Conference TechNet WA is planning a workshop (...)

The Foundations of University Teaching and Learning programme is offered every semester to support staff relatively new to the University as well as staff with teaching experience who wish to refine, test out, validate or develop their present conceptions of good teaching and their current teaching (...)

Foundations of University Teaching and Learning is designed to offer an integrated and highly interactive perspective on teaching in a research-intensive university. The programme provides a theoretical framework relating to teaching and learning, along with opportunities to explore a range of (...)

The course is designed for people with little or no knowledge of statistics. It will be spread over two/three days covering material ranging from means and standard deviations to simple linear regression, and basic ANOVA. Some basic categorical data analysis will be included with the emphasis (...)

Have you ever wanted to:

Communicate important study related events to your students? Provide a unit outline and learning materials in a central location? Manage access and release results to individual students?

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions then you (...)

The Teaching and Learning Orientation aims to provide new teaching staff with an overview of teaching and learning policy and practice at UWA as well as information on campus-wide services that support teaching and learning.

In this workshop, you will examine a range of strategies for facilitating discussion and running engaging, interactive classes. The workshop is aimed at those of you who are new to tutoring or looking to develop your teaching skills.

A Novice's Approach to Using Excel is designed to enable participants to better understand the essential concepts of spreadsheets and to enable them to demonstrate their ability to use a spreadsheet application on a personal computer. Participants will practice developing, formatting and using a (...)

Facilitation has become a key skill for anyone who is in a team, leading a team, provide professional development and/or training. This one and a half day workshop offers participants to learn basic facilitation skills. Features of the program include: understanding facilitation, conducting a needs (...)

Every staff member at UWA is responsible for ensuring that they are aware of, and comply with the University’s record keeping standards, policies and procedures. This workshop will introduce you to the benefits of managing your records, the what, why and how of filing, basic classification and file (...)

Teaching in the laboratory or workshop setting can often become a routine process that does not take full advantage of the opportunities to improve student learning. This workshop will introduce you to strategies to enhance student engagement and communication between teacher and students, making (...)